We are delighted that Prof Sebastien Ourselin, Director of the Translational Imaging Group, has been named as one of Entrepreneur First's Science Partners.

Entrepreneur First, or EF, is an intitiative providing a unique training programme to technologically minded graduates and experts with the desire to launch a start-up company. It provides an intensive 6-month training programme with up to £10,000 of investment in the business idea and partnering opportunities with other great minds. EF has supported the creation of 40 successful start-ups so far. Applications are accepted from the most promising engineers and computer scientists from academia and industry across Europe.

An ambitious research study into early signs of Alzheimer’s and Dementia has begun at University College London, with a cohort of 500 taken from the Medical Research Council’s National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), which started in March, 1946.

The NSHD Neuroimaging sub-study is led by Dr Jonathan Schott and Prof Nick Fox from the Dementia Research Centre (DRC), with the aim to identity healthy age-related changes to the brain, and those changes which could help predict patients at risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other forms of dementia. The Translational Imaging Group is providing the technical lead on this project.

A new site has been launched as part of a collaborative project between the Dementia Research Centre and the Translational Imaging Group (both at UCL). Seeing Dementia offers a unique way for the public to learn about dementia, the diagnostic process and see first-hand the effects of the disease on the brain, whilst contributing to the research outcomes of the project through their participation.